[MPlayer-cygwin] How to build mplayer/mencoder with cygwin static linked?

[Joey Parrish]

On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 09:55:07AM +0800, Bo Xie wrote:
> > you can use mingw32+msys to build a native win32 mplayer
> 
> What's the conclusion/solution? I don't want to use MinGW+MSYS. Is it
> possible to use cygwin build a mplayer/mencoder which only depends on
> cygwin1.dll and cygz.dll (no more dlls,eg.
> CYGGL-1.dll,CYGX11-6.dll,CYGXEXT-6.dll,CYGESD-0.dll,etc)? Thank you
> very much!

Yes.  ./configure --enable-static && make

That's it.  It's not magic.  I've been doing it for years.

--Joey

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